What a Bengali Muslim Freedom fighter said on casteism among Muslims
An excerpt of an essay written by Rezaul Karim, a Bengali Indian Muslim Freedom fighter, who fought against the partition of India and wrote about Muslim casteism.
When Guardians of the Jamia Millia Islamia met in Europe
Recalling the events that led to the meeting of the guardians of the Jamia Millia Islamia in Europe in 1925.
Syed Abul Hassan, A Great Nationalist Leader
He participated in the Khilafat movement and served as the president of the Bhagalpur District Khilafat Committee. He organised Khilafat meetings and collected Turkish relief fund. He also took part in the Non-cooperation movement.
In his welcome address at Bihar Provincial conference at Bhagalpur on 28th August, 1920, he stressed the need of national unity for the success of Non-cooperation movement against the British Government. He was ardent believer of Hindu-Muslim unity and communal peace. He was a man of broad outlook and secular character.
Bahadur Shah Zafar, a Sufi King convicted as a Wahabi rebel.
[The court martial of Bahadur Shah Zafar sat for the last time on […]
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, A Luminous Mind – By, Jawaharlal Nehru
He was a peculiar and a very special representative in a high degree of that great composite culture that has gradually grown in India. I do not mean to say that everybody has to be like Maulana Azad to represent that composite culture. There are many representatives of it in various parts of India, but he here in Delhi or in Bengal or Calcutta, wherever he spent the greater part of his life-represented this synthesis of various cultures which have come one after another to India, rivers that had flowed in and lost themselves in the ocean of Indian life, India’s humanity affecting them, changing them and being changed themselves by them.
जगदेव प्रसाद: भारत का महान लड़ाका
– जयन्त जिज्ञासु बिहार के सामंती ठसक वाले इलाक़े में पैदा […]
Matiel Moghannam, ‘The Palestinian Gandhi’
Matiel Moghannam, ‘The Palestinian Gandhi’
When Lalu Prasad Yadav Travelled in Sleeper Coaches, Slept on Chauki: RJD’s Supremo’s Journey Since 1970s
As PUSU president (elected in alliance between Samajwadi Yuvraj Sabha and Vidyarthi Parishad), Lalu was member of government committees of Patna district and had successfully persuaded the administration to have special counters for students in all cinema halls. PUSU president was entitled with telephones in the office and residence and hostel room.
From Reforming Mithila University to Defeating Nagendra Jha; Dr Shakeelur Rehman Led Fight Against Corruption and Became First Muslim MP from Darbhanga
From Reforming Mithila University to Defeating Nagendra Jha; Dr Shakeelur Rehman Led Fight Against Corruption and Became First Muslim MP from Darbhanga
BATTLE OF JAMRUD 1837 FROM ‘AFGHANISTAN IN THE AGE OF EMPIRES’
The reasons that led to the Battle of Jamrud in 1837 of Afghanistan fought between the Sikhs and the Pashtuns.
Bhagat Singh’s first article on Martyrs! “Blood Sprinkled on the Day of Holi Babbar Akalis on the Crucifix”
Bhagat Singh wrote an article on the crucifixion of the six Babbar Akalis for the Hindi Paper Pratap, tracing the history of the Babbar Akali Movement and praising their acts of courage and bravery.
Dr Brydon – Sole Survivor of 16,000 Souls in The Afghan War!
The 13th is considered unlucky by some, but it was on 13th January […]
A must read letter written by Abraham Lincoln to his son’s teacher :
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and perhaps its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy. Abraham Lincoln wrote a famous letter to his son’s teacher, who must read for all parents, Abraham Lincoln wrote to his son’s teacher:
Khuda Bakhsh, Hindu Muslim unity & cow protection movement
The biggest achievement of Khuda Baksh was creating a public library from the precious collections of his father and making his own valuable collection of books, which was later named as “Oriental Public Library”.
He started constructing a separate special building for the library, which was completed in two years. The library was inaugurated by the Lieutenant Governor of Bangal Sir Charles Elliot in 1891. At that time it was having around 4000 hand written books in the library.
Begum of Bhopal Sultan Jehan, her son Obaidullah on Hajj Pilgrimage: an interesting story.
Obaidullah, the second son of Sultan Jehan Begum of Bhopal was a Hafiz-e-Quran. He accompanied Sultan Jehan Begum during her famous Hajj pilgrimage in the year 1903. Below is an interesting event from their Hajj journey.
When Sir Syed Ahmad Khan delivered a speech at Patna in 1883
In January 1883 Sir Syed Ahmad Khan delivered a speech in Patna, emphasizing the need for cordial relations between Hindus and Muslims. Excerpts from this speech follow.
Bipin Chandra Pal on Muslims in Indian Freedom Struggle
During my (Bipin Chandra Pal) college life in Calcutta, the country was passing through great political changes that had a lasting effect upon social and political evolution. During the closing years of my school days, Lord Mayo was the Indian Viceroy. His brief Viceroyalty was noted for the deportation of the Wahabi leader, Amir Khan.
जब एक पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री को फ़ुटपाथ पर डेरा जमाना पड़ा
1993 की बात है मैं घर से डीटीसी की बस में सवार होकर […]
Nandini Satpathy: An Eight Year Old Girl Who Took Off the British Flag
Nandini Satpathy served as a minister in the Indira Gandhi government before being chosen as CM of Odisha. In her long public career, she never lost an election.
It all began with that anti-British protest where, as an eight-year-old, Satpathy was beaten up by the police.
ख़ुदा बख़्श ओरियंटल लाइब्रेरी, पटना के संस्थापक मौलवी ख़ुदा बख़्श
Shubhneet Kaushik मध्यकालीन भारत के दिग्गज इतिहासकार सर यदुनाथ सरकार ने मौलवी ख़ुदा […]
